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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might

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